A CNN talk with Aisha from August, following her move to America.
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Afghan police have captured one of the men who allegedly sliced off the ears and nose of a teenage Afghan girl. That girl, now-19-year-old Bibi Aisha, became the maimed face of Taliban oppression when Newsweek ran a story on her this summer (summarized here.) Police have now arrested her father-in-law, Sulaiman, on charges related to her maiming, sources tell the Daily Beast. They’re still hunting her husband and his brother.

But one senior police officer says none of them are likely to be punished by Afghanistan’s justice system. “One needs money and influence to win cases in the courts,” he says. “The father of the girl is lacking both.” The group Women for Afghan Women is working to convince the attorney general to try the case in Kabul, where they think they have a better shot at a fair trial.

I hope someone catches every one of those bastards in a dark alley somewhere, and snip them on both ends.

fractal

Dec 7, 2010 2:57 PM CST

I wonder how many comments we would have if this was a nation of aggressive, fundamentalist women who cut body parts off of men, threw acid in mens faces, and hung men for adultery. Since it is women that suffer, it is just chalked up to "cultural" differences, and shrugged off.